BBC Worldwide has struck a deal to make hundreds of hours of content available via the UK online video service blinkbox. Popular titles on DVD, such as Top Gear, Gavin & Stacey, Spooks and Planet Earth, will cost users £1.89 (E2.19) an episode to download from which is still finalising what it will charge for […]
Latvian telco Lattelecom has announced that its IPTV service ‘Lattelecom Interactive TV’ has surpassed 30,000 subscribers. Lattelecom has also recently launched commercial tests of a new DTT service, available in a 70 kilometre radius around the Latvian capital city of Riga. ….
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to launch an investigation into how the habits and personal information of web users are used to target Internet advertising. Competition regulators said they had been prompted to launch the study, which could ultimately lead to an industry code of practice, because of a need to “update […]
Warner Bros and Turner Broadcasting have made a joint deal with YouTube to put movie and TV clips on the popular video portal. The deal is aimed at driving digital sales of Warner movies and TV shows online, the company said. Links on some WB shows already on YouTube point users directly to the WBShop.com […]
BBC Worldwide is rebranding its BBC Prime channel to BBC Entertainment later this year. From November, the general entertainment channel will be renamed BBC Entertainment across Europe and the Middle East. Dean Possenniskie, general manager and senior vice-president EMEA BBC Worldwide Channels said the move would help to give the brand consistency across its key […]
The Sundance Channel has unveiled a video-on-demand service offering documentaries and international films endorsed by Sundance festival founder Robert Redford and often available the same day the movies hit theatres. Sundance Selects will debut with Spike Lee’s new documentary, “Passing Strange: The Movie.” The service will be available on cable TV systems owned by three […]
Television advertising still has the greatest impact on consumers according to a survey published by Deloitte/YouGov on behalf of the Edinburgh International Television Festival. Of the 2,123 UK viewers polled, 64 per cent of respondents ranked television commercials as the advertising format with the most impact. Television advertising had the most impact on young viewers, […]
Over the next five years, the worldwide value of Content Delivery Network (CDN) services will pass $2 Billion annually by 2011 and continue growing thereafter, reports In-Stat. Growth in CDNs is a result of increasing usage of "over-the-top" Internet video, as well as their flexibility to manage content for delivery through multiple delivery channels to […]
Mobile operator O2 has unveiled its new mobile TV service. However, the service is only available on certain handsets, with the iPhone absent from the list. The mobile TV package will be divided into two offerings: the lifestyle pack, which includes entertainment, music, and news from channels such as RTE News Now, CNN and the […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released a Mobile Video Equipment, Phones, Services, and Subscribers report, which tracks DVB-H, DVB-SH, 3G, MBMS, TdTV, FLO, and CMMB products and vendors, including Apple, LG, Motorola, Nokia, ONDA, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and others. “Though video-capable phones continue to become more widely available, subscriber uptake of pay TV […]